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Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft Graph Webhooks, one of the core building blocks for creating modern, event-driven Microsoft 365 applications. Almost every developer building with Microsoft 365 eventually faces the same challenge. How do you know when something changes? Whether you're…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft Graph Change Notifications, one of the most important capabilities for building modern, event-driven Microsoft 365 applications. Imagine your application needs to know whenever a new email arrives, a SharePoint document is updated, a Teams message is…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability, Microsoft's end-to-end platform for measuring, managing, and reducing an organization's environmental impact. Most organizations want to become more sustainable, but very few can accurately answer a simple question: What is our actual carbon…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft Partner Center, the central platform every Microsoft partner uses to manage their relationship with Microsoft. Most people have heard the name Partner Center, but very few can clearly explain what it actually does. Some assume it's…

As organizations race to build AI agents, a critical question emerges: how do you manage thousands of autonomous tools without stifling innovation? In this episode of the M365 FM podcast, we sit down with Thomas Su from the Microsoft Copilot Studio team to break down the essential framework for agent…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft AppSource, Microsoft's marketplace for business applications, consulting services, and industry solutions built specifically for the Microsoft ecosystem. If you've ever heard someone say, "Just get it from AppSource," you might have assumed they were talking about…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Agent Feed, Microsoft's new supervision experience for AI agents inside Power Apps. As AI agents become capable of processing emails, reviewing documents, creating records, and automating entire business processes, a new challenge emerges. How do you actually…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring the Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft's unified development framework for building enterprise-ready AI agents. If you've been following AI over the last year, you've almost certainly heard the word agent. It's everywhere. Blog posts, conference sessions, LinkedIn discussions,…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, one of the most exciting workloads inside Microsoft Fabric that enables organizations to analyze, visualize, and act on streaming data the moment it arrives. When most people hear the term real-time analytics, they…

Welcome to another episode of Knowledge Nuggets with Mirko Peters. Today we're exploring Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse, Microsoft's modern cloud-native data warehouse built as part of the unified Microsoft Fabric analytics platform. Most people hear the term data warehouse and immediately think of a traditional SQL database. They imagine tables,…

Azure DNS is Microsoft's fully managed Domain Name System (DNS) hosting service that translates human-friendly domain names like contoso.com into the IP addresses computers use to communicate. Instead of managing your own DNS servers, patching operating systems, or configuring high availability, Azure DNS hosts your DNS records on Microsoft's global…

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that allows AI models to securely connect to external tools, applications, and data sources using a single, consistent protocol. Before MCP, every AI assistant needed custom integrations for services like Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Exchange, Dynamics 365, or databases. MCP replaces those…

Azure AI Search is Microsoft's fully managed cloud search service that helps developers build fast, intelligent, and AI-powered search experiences for applications, websites, and enterprise systems. Unlike traditional keyword search that only matches exact words, Azure AI Search combines full-text search, semantic search, vector search, and AI enrichment to understand…

Microsoft Fabric OneLake is the unified storage layer at the heart of Microsoft Fabric, designed to eliminate one of the biggest challenges in modern analytics: data duplication. Instead of every department maintaining its own data warehouse, data lake, or storage account, OneLake provides a single logical data lake for the…

SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager), now officially known as Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (MECM), and Microsoft Intune are two of Microsoft's most important endpoint management solutions. While both help IT teams deploy software, manage devices, enforce security policies, and keep endpoints updated, they were built for completely different eras of…

Microsoft Intune is Microsoft's cloud-based endpoint management platform that allows organizations to securely manage laptops, desktops, smartphones, tablets, and applications from a single web-based console. Instead of IT teams manually configuring every device, Intune automatically deploys security settings, installs business applications, enforces compliance policies, and protects corporate data regardless of…

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is Microsoft's cloud-based desktop virtualization platform that delivers a complete Windows desktop and business applications securely from Azure to virtually any device. Instead of relying on powerful local computers, the desktop experience runs inside Microsoft's cloud while users access it through the Windows App on Windows,…

Azure ExpressRoute is Microsoft's private network connection service that links your on-premises infrastructure directly to Microsoft's global cloud network without using the public internet. Instead of sending your business-critical traffic across shared internet connections, ExpressRoute creates a dedicated connection through an approved connectivity provider, delivering predictable performance, lower latency, higher…

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is Microsoft's disaster recovery service designed to keep your business running when an entire server, data center, or Azure region becomes unavailable. Instead of simply backing up files, ASR continuously replicates entire workloads—including the operating system, applications, settings, and data—to a secondary location. If disaster strikes,…

Azure Backup is Microsoft's fully managed cloud backup service that protects your virtual machines, databases, file shares, disks, and even on-premises servers without requiring backup servers, tapes, or complex infrastructure. Instead of maintaining expensive backup hardware and manually rotating storage media, Azure Backup automatically creates secure recovery points inside Azure…

Azure NetApp Files (ANF) is Microsoft's enterprise-grade, ultra-high-performance file storage service built directly into Azure. Powered by NetApp's industry-leading storage technology, ANF delivers sub-millisecond latency, massive throughput, and exceptional reliability for mission-critical workloads. Unlike traditional cloud file storage, Azure NetApp Files is specifically designed for applications that demand consistent, predictable…

Artificial intelligence is transforming software development faster than ever before. Low-code platforms are becoming more powerful, professional developers are embracing AI-assisted coding, and enterprise architecture is evolving toward a future where makers, developers, architects, and AI agents work together. In this episode of the M365 Show, Mirko Peters is joined…

Azure Files is Microsoft's fully managed cloud file sharing service that allows you to create secure, scalable file shares without maintaining a traditional file server. Instead of purchasing hardware, installing Windows Server, configuring storage, and worrying about backups or disk failures, Azure Files provides enterprise-grade shared storage that can be…

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is Microsoft's fully managed Kubernetes platform that makes it easier to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications in Azure. Instead of building and maintaining your own Kubernetes cluster, Microsoft operates the control plane while you focus on deploying your applications. AKS combines the power of open-source…